Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-06
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Pouohkeepsie, n. Y. is seen Il distance
of sixteen miles.
-Seventy-five years ago the hrst
tomatoes grown in this country were
cultivated as n strange and snowy
horticultural curiosity in Salem, Mass
-Gun-fints are still manufactured
in England to a considerable extent
These gun-fints are exported to Africa
and disposed of TO the natives OF the
interior by barter.
"A rattlesnake was captured in the
eastern part of Southington making or
with farmers hen. 1t crawled over
a stone wall with the hen in its mouth.
Connecticut Farmer.
The duck has been so greatly
changed by domest;cation that natural-
lists can easily determine by the bones
Of the wing whether the bird was wild
or a tame one.-N L. Farmer.
1t seems 70 have recently been dis
covered that three-ifths of the horses
are bow-legged or pigeon-toed. In
New York fifty-three differently shaped
horse-shoes are required to lit the hoofs
of the horses.
Another level-headed druggist sold
harmless colored water for vitrol in
Paris the other day to an excited
woman, who Immediately proceeded TO
fling the innocuous liquid IN the faces
of two persons whom she desired to
disfgure.
Talon Dauzy, with limbs tied. and
great beads of sweat upon his face,
being about to be hanged, at Camden,
S. c., kissed his baby and spoke these
old words, unutterably human and
touching. to his children: ''A1ind
mamma.
-'.Why is it, Cicero. that you done
visit Miss Spilkins now?'' ''Wall. We
see, boss, her mother thought ous
family wasn't quite 'ristocratic huff;
her father is whitewash artist and
mine is only a barber. ''-BWrltngton
Free Press.
"A little girl, whose mother had
been affecting some of the English
forms of speech, astonished Il visitor
recently, who had just made use of the
expression half after six, by asking in
a most interested way: ''Oh, tell me!
when did you begin to say half after?''
~ 7. independent.
For the benefit of those who do NOS
know the meaning of a sneeze the fol-
lowing is quoted from pamphlet res
Gently issued by a German scientist
He says a sneeze is but IAN affection of
the respiratory nervous center, the af-
ferent impulse of which is conveyed by
the trigeminal nerve fibers.
Two bells cast in 1875 at Messilla,
Mexico, for the Catholic Church, are to
go to Milwaukee to be smelted. 1t is
believed there is at least one thou
sand dollars in precious metals which
became fused in when the laborers at
the original casting dropped jewelry
into the molten mass to propitiate
patron saints.
Achieving u Reputation. Husband
Young Miliken seems to have made
quite a name for himself" Wife
''You surprise me. never thought
that he would amount to any thing"
Husband-'Oh, yes, he can hold an
eyeglass on his eye longer than any
member of the club. "-Drake'S Trap
eIers' Magazine.
Last Monday, while out fishing. T.
r. Hair, of Tampa, Fla, caught large
catfish. He held it up near his right
breast to break its back. when the fish
gave a sudden jump and filmed him
right over his heart, the fin entering
about three-quarters of an inch and
breaking off even with the flesh. Mr..
Hair took out his pocket-knife and cut
the fin out, and at last accounts was
doing well.
Mrs. George H. Walsh. of Grand
Forks, d. T., wife of Hon. George H.
Walsh, the well-known politician, in
her husbands absence from home this
season has run the farm. hired all the
help, put in and harvested eight hun
dred acres of grain of splendid yield,
has paid the entire expense of the
work, including seed, ETC., from the
proceeds of the sale of chickens, eggs,
butter and vegetables from the farm.
"A certain professional man in Or
lando. Fla. has a scheme which might
be adopted by every one who pays his
street tax. When a collector called on
him yesterday with bill he was re-
quested to stand still moment and in
the meantime an assistant of the afore-
said D. M. had succeeded in taking a
of the pair in the act Of
paying the bill and giving a receipt.
The scheme works to perfection and he
is never troubled a second time.
S. V. French, the New York City
politician, made queer catch in Mon
tauk bay the other day. What he
hauled up was long black fish that
over four pounds. The pecu-
Iiarity ABOUT it was that its head was
dat and corrugated like the sole of
tennis shoe. 1t proved to be a speci-
men of the ''remora." By means of